How's my ripping method?

[natebetween]

Okay....so I have limited programs available to me and I don't feel like spending any money, or DLing a demo just to have it quit after I've figured it out. Here's what I do and I want to know what you think.

1st thing is I could care less about menus, subtitles, surround sound, extras, etc.....when I back up my movie, I just want a movie.

1st, rip the .vobs using SmartRipper.

Next, open up in DVD2AVI and save my D2V project file and my audio track.

Next I open the D2V and audio file in TMPGEnc Plus and I encode them to DVD compliant MPEG files.

A few hours later I have a MPEG that I can add to Roxio and burn. There is little to no noticible quality loss, especially if the movie is around 2 hrs long.

Only one problem as of yet.....Roxio is the only DVD burning proggy I have and it doesn't seem to be able to import chapters. That's the only other thing I care about.

SO what do you think? Too much work? Ok for the tools that I have? And what free/cheap/trial proggy do I need to use my MPEG and my chapters from ChapterExtractor.

Thanks.

[DeleriumMDK]

Wow...thats a bit complicated for just movie only. Here's what I do for movie only on a DVD-9:

1: Rip with DVD Decrypter in File Mode
2: Load the files up in DVDShrink
3: Select Re-Author
4: Drag the largest part up and to the left and then make whatever changes are necesary (Extra audio removal, subtitles, video compression if needed, etc)
5: Hit backup, and in about half an hour, I've got a DVD ready to burn.

With this method, it has chapters and everything I need, its just the movie only. Its works great for me every time I do this.

If its a DVD-5 I just use DVD Decrypter in ISO Mode Read, make my Iso, and then burn it in DVD Decrypter also. By the way, both programs I use for this are free tools available here.

[DeleriumMDK]

Oh, and if the movie is only about two hours long, thats why you have no quality loss. DVD-R's can hold 120 minutes of high quality video. Your results as far as quality go should be the same after using your longer method, or the simpler faster method I described above.

[robb7979]

Still taking longer than you should,

If you're going to use DVDshrink, you don't even need to rip the files first, just open the DVD with DVDshrink. DVD2one you must rip first.

-rob

[zappafan]

I usually rip to hard-drive with DVDDecrypter, shrink with DVDShrink, and then burn with Copy2DVD. I thought I would try skipping the DVDDecrypter step and use DVDShrink to shrink and rip to hard-drive. When I did that I didn't get the IFO files. What did I do wrong?

[Gurm]

Step 1:
Double-click the "dvd shrink 3.0" icon.

Step 2:
Hit "open disk".

Step 3:
Hit "reauthor".

Step 4:
Drag the biggest title over to the "reauthor" window.

Step 5:
Hit "go".

Step 6:
Burn the resulting VIDEO_TS folder in your choice of burning program. Don't let the burning program reauthor it. Just burn the damn thing.

- Gurm

[macleod]

as gurm mentioned, using dvdshrink is the way to go for a dvd-9 (if it is a dvd-5 aka single layer), just use dvddecypter, rip the iso image to your harddrive and then use dvddecypter to burn it back to your burner. VERY EASY.

With dvd-9, use dvdshrink, which is a GREAT SIMPLE program to use to back up your dvd's. After it finishes its thing, you can use freeware called burn4free to burn it to a DVD.

*as a side note, someone mentioned that burn4free contains some type of spyware. the poster explains how to get rid of it. Go to tools and type in burn4free and his is one of the comments.

[natebetween]

Damn....one word about DVD Shrink.......A-Freakin-Mazing! Thanks guys!